Amid the protest, piles of garbage have piled up alongside the roads and markets.
Local leaders and business community members also joined the protest.
The deputy commissioner called the WSSC’s chief executive officer, Mohammad Arif, and tehsil municipal officer Mohammad Shoib to his office but the issue remained unresolved, reported Dawn News.
The workers claimed they have not been paid for the past three months and this has been a regular episode since 2016.
WSSC Union president Sohail Ahmad declined the deputy commissioner’s offer for talks and called for the immediate payment of dues in a lump sum, reported Dawn News.
He said the WSSC had been partially paying salary to workers for seven years.
Ahmad said the workers decided not to suspend water supply at the request of the leaders of the business community.